Selma, Alabama, Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965:
Under the orders of a democrat governor 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriff ’s deputies, and others,
most if not all democrats themselves, order demonstrators to disperse.
After a short warning, wielding clubs, and tear gas, they advance on the demonstrators.
In the ensuing melee, John Lewis, 25 years old at the time, suffered a skull fracture.
He then goes on to join the party of his oppressors and becomes a lifelong democrat himself.
He turns himself into a civil rights icon and builds a political career on the strength of his black skin and the injury sustained at the march.
He dedicates his life to attacking, smearing and destroying members of the republican party even though it was republicans who
supported the demonstrators and opposed the democrat brutality back in 1965 on Bloody Sunday..
The marchers, including John Lewis, what they wanted.
What is Selma like now, and why?